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Hedjaz

noun
1.
A coastal region of the western Arabian Peninsula bordering on the Red Sea; includes both Mecca and Medina; formerly an independent kingdom until it united with Nejd to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.  Synonyms: Hejaz, Hijaz.





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"Hedjaz" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the eleventh century that the dust again conglomerated. Two Arab tribes from the desert of the Hedjaz, suddenly driven westward by the Fatimites, entered Morocco, not with a small military expedition, as the Arabs had hitherto done, but with a horde of emigrants reckoned as high as 200,000 families; and this first colonizing expedition ...
— In Morocco • Edith Wharton


Words linked to "Hedjaz" :   Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, geographic region, geographical region, Al Madinah, mecca, geographic area, Arabian Peninsula, Arabia, medina, geographical area


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